Category Archives: Local News

Husky Oil Operations Ltd. has pleaded guilty in connection with a major offshore oil spill over five years ago. The incident, involving the SeaRose FPSO, happened in November 2018, with an estimated 2...

A sad end to the search for a man reported missing from Bay Roberts. The RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team located the body of 63-year-old Michael O'Driscoll in the waters off Mad Rock in Bay Roberts. T...

Teacher Noel Strapp has lost his appeal of sexual assault convictions involving a former student. Forty-year-old Strapp was sentenced to four years in prison in July of 2022 for offences against a stu...

An 82-year-old man, hospitalized as the result of a collision on Torbay Road last week, has passed away. The crash occurred on Torbay Road over the lunch hour on February 22, and resulted in the closu...

A new political poll shows that the majority of those asked are satisfied with the overall performance of the provincial government and the leadership of Premier Andrew Furey. The Narrative Research p...

Porter Airlines is expanding service in Newfoundland with daily flights between Deer Lake and Halifax as well as between St. John's and Ottawa come June. It currently operates a flight from St. John's...

The federal government has served notice that it is planning to withdraw a significant portion of funding to the provinces and territories through Labour Market Development Agreements, and will implem...

NAPE is shaking its head over how government could even consider what it calls "highway robbery"-a P3 model for laying down asphalt on our roads. Workers demonstrated outside Confederation Building ju...

The Orangestore will be the official sponsor of the Torch Relay for the 2025 Canada Summer Games. The announcement was made this morning at the MUN Signal Hill Campus in downtown St. John's. Co-Chair ...

Labrador is in for a thaw, but Cain's Quest 2024 is ready to go. Last year's race was disrupted by unseasonably warm weather, forcing officials to cancel mid-way through. Organizers scrambled to put t...